'Yogi-isms' will live on long after his baseball career is forgotten.

Yogi Berra, who has just died at the age of 90, was more than one of Baseball's greatest catchers and the inspiration for a cartoon character. He also had a way with words, coming up with mangled expressions that still resonate. President George W. Bush, also famous for mangling language, once said: "Yogi's been an inspiration to me. Some of the press corps here even think he might be my speechwriter."

According to a Sixty Minutes segment on Yogi, he has more entries in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations than any President. Justin Kaplan, the editor of Bartletts, tells the show:

"I don't think people quote Shakespeare so much as they now quote Yogi Berra," Kaplan says. "Can you imagine a commencement speech without 'When you come to a fork in the road, take it'? It's impossible to conceive. And it leaves the young graduates in a state of total confusion and wonderment, which is the way it should be."

Many quotes are attributed to Yogi that probably shouldn't be; even he admitted it, saying “I never said most of the things I said.” One of his most famous, that I use all the time over at TreeHugger discussing busy urban spaces like the High Line, is supposed to be Yogi's opinion of a St. Louis restaurant. But in fact, according to Freakonomics, it predates him by a couple of years:

“Nobody goes there anymore, It’s too crowded.” is often erroneously attributed to Berra, but John McNulty used it in a story in the New Yorker, Feb. 10, 1943, when Berra was not yet even in the major leagues. An even earlier version, attributed to a “flutterbrained cutie named Suzanne Ridgeway,” appeared in the Helena Independent, Sept. 10, 1941 (“Now I know why nobody ever comes here; it’s too crowded”).